Abstract:In order to avoid the brittle failure of glulam bolted connections, a reinforcing method, which used plain round rod as reinforcement perpendicular to grain, was proposed. Through monotonic and low frequency cyclic loading tests of reinforced and non reinforced glulam beam to column bolted connections, the stiffness, ductility, moment resistance capacity, failure modes and seismic behaviors of the connections were studied. The results show that the cracks of non reinforced bolted connections appear early with rapid development and the main failure mode of non reinforced connections is splitting, while the main failure modes of reinforced connections are wood crushing and blots bending. Besides, the moment resistance capacity, ductility and seismic performance of the connections reinforced with plain round rod are enhanced significantly.